Kate Braverman
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Formative years
Kate Braverman was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on February 5, 1949. She moved to Los Angeles in 1958 with her family.
Braverman earned a B.A. in Anthropology from University of California, Berkeley and an M.A. in English from Sonoma State University.[3]
Career
Braverman was a member of the Venice Poetry Workshop, Professor of Creative Writing at California State University, Los Angeles,[4] and staff faculty of the UCLA Writer's Program.
She also taught a private workshop that included Janet Fitch, Cristina Garcia and Donald Rawley.
Awards
Braverman won three Best American Short Stories awards, an O. Henry Award, and a Carver Short Story Award, as well as the Economist Prize and an Isherwood Fellowship. She was also the first recipient of Graywolf Press's Creative Nonfiction Award for Frantic Transmissions to and from Los Angeles: An Accidental Memoir, published in February 2006.
Death
Braverman died in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on October 12, 2019.[5]
Works
Novels
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Short stories
- "Squandering The Blue", KGB Bar Lit
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- A Good Day For Seppuku. City Lights Publishers. 2018. Template:ISBN.
Poetry
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Memoir
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Anthologies
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- The Best American Short Stories 1991 Template:ISBN
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References
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External links
- Kate Braverman's official site
- Interview with Kate Braverman at Word Riot
- Interview with Kate Braverman at Bookslut.com
- Interview with Kate Braverman at SmallSpiralNotebook.com
- Interview with Kate Braverman at Zulkey.com
- Interview with Kate Braverman by Erin Jourdan
- "Interview", Zyzzyva, Spring 2004
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- 1949 births
- 2019 deaths
- American women novelists
- American women short story writers
- American women poets
- Novelists from Philadelphia
- UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni
- Sonoma State University alumni
- 20th-century American novelists
- 21st-century American novelists
- Poets from California
- 20th-century American women writers
- 21st-century American women writers
- 20th-century American poets
- 21st-century American poets
- 20th-century American short story writers
- 21st-century American short story writers